The latest data center news from the trade press and major outlets: new campuses, power deals, cooling, AI buildouts and the jobs they create. Updated three times a day. Each story links to the original publisher.
Can Evaporative Cooling in Data Centers Still Make Sense?
Evaporative cooling is hard to defend on water-use grounds, but some operators still choose it for its lower upfront cost, higher efficiency, and dry-climate performance.
AMD Helion Puts CPU Density at the Center of Agentic AI Infrastructure
AMD's new open rack architecture rethinks the balance between CPU-driven agent execution and GPU inference, raising important questions about power, cooling, networking and the economics of next-generation AI data centers.
Could the Societal Value of Workloads Shape Data Center Policy?
As opposition to data center expansion grows, policymakers may eventually look beyond power and water consumption to ask whether the digital services those facilities support justify their environmental and infrastructure…
OPC Global Summit: News spans AI-optimized hardware, cooling equipment
The OCP Global Summit is taking place this week in San Jose, Calif., and the news is flowing. The summit is an annual conference of the Open Compute Project, an…